Title: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: TightEnd on December 19, 2014, 02:27:41 PM I saw this in a magazine series
Players are asked to describe a hand that changed their life, it could be for the better or worse, it could be a significant change or a minor one but a memorable hand for you, for whatever reason thought we would give it a go on here, and see what follows..... over to you Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: RED-DOG on December 19, 2014, 02:39:55 PM (http://www.callagold.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/814387_hand_2.jpg)
Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: edgascoigne on December 20, 2014, 12:10:30 AM I'd never played poker beyond a little bit of 5p-10p in the Sixth Form common room.
I then toddled off to University and played a handful of £10 sit and gos. Return home in a holiday from first year at University. Head off to Gala with father for a £10er rebuy, which at the time felt BIG, and crucially was the first time we played poker together. Final tabled it with 8 paid and after the bubble burst I jammed 10bb with Q10hh and got called by 99. Flopped a 10 but he turned a set and that was all she wrote. I've never known for sure if I made the right play, and I've been seeking closure for the last 10yrs. I bloody love poker and think we often all take for granted what different satisfactions the game gives us. Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: Tractor on December 20, 2014, 12:58:59 AM About 10 years or so ago, had £80 quid on BET365 and ran it up to 10k+ in a day playing PLO.
Some how got it all in against Luinoid( or similar) set over set and he got there.. Not sure if it actually changed my life but did make me feel sick for a day or two. Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: scotty77 on December 20, 2014, 02:30:07 AM Few years ago, I had £27 in my account. This was all the money in the world. Had just started applying for jobs and had a couple of interviews lined up.
Had it all on one table of £30nl. Got it in as a flip. Won it. Within that same night had spun it upto £1k. Used it as a roll for £20nl. Didn't bother applying for jobs anymore. Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: neverbluff67 on December 20, 2014, 07:09:55 AM I tank 5bet all in with Ts 4c with 15 left in the EPT main event
KK didn't hold Definite life changer Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: TightEnd on December 20, 2014, 10:04:08 AM I tank 5bet all in with Ts 4c with 15 left in the EPT main event KK didn't hold Definite life changer now i remember that one! the archteypal hand for this thread thanks for the contributions, keep them coming Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: The Camel on December 20, 2014, 07:09:12 PM WSOP Main event 2008.
About 100 left I have 1.5x average at about 1.3million. Blinds are 5000-10000. I'm on the most fantastic table ever, they are desperate to give their chips away. Guy opens in MP for 28k. He's got me covered. I call in the sb with AK suited. BB makes it 55k ?!?!? (has me covered also) MP calls. I tank call. Flop is 8 high rainbow. I check fold. The other two guys get it in with QQ and JJ. Turn was a king :( I didn't win a significant pot for the rest of the tournament and went out 75th. The guy who won the pot moved into the top 5 stacks in the tournament and ended 12th or something completely slaughtering his stack. I decided not to play the AK fast because the tab;le was so damn good, I didn't want to gamble. If it was a harder table I would have been more willing to get them in. Obviously not sure they would have got them in pre, but feel like at least one of them would. Maybe both. And If I triple up I would have been main event chip leader with < 100 left. Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: Karabiner on December 20, 2014, 07:15:54 PM WSOP Main event 2008. About 100 left I have 1.5x average at about 1.3million. Blinds are 5000-10000. I'm on the most fantastic table ever, they are desperate to give their chips away. Guy opens in MP for 28k. He's got me covered. I call in the sb with AK suited. BB makes it 55k ?!?!? (has me covered also) MP calls. I tank call. Flop is 8 high rainbow. I check fold. The other two guys get it in with QQ and JJ. Turn was a king :( I didn't win a significant pot for the rest of the tournament and went out 75th. The guy who won the pot moved into the top 5 stacks in the tournament and ended 12th or something completely slaughtering his stack. I decided not to play the AK fast because the tab;le was so damn good, I didn't want to gamble. If it was a harder table I would have been more willing to get them in. Obviously not sure they would have got them in pre, but feel like at least one of them would. Maybe both. And If I triple up I would have been main event chip leader with < 100 left. That's the trouble with poker - you can play perfect but it's not always enough. Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: youthnkzR on December 20, 2014, 10:39:57 PM PokerStars Hand #92635404252: Tournament #2013010010, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level LI (600000/1200000) - 2013/01/19 16:47:30 ET
Table '2013010010 341' 9-max Seat #4 is the button Seat 2: selinantis (12859164 in chips) Seat 3: 1BigAceHole (29676745 in chips) Seat 4: katya0071 (7428324 in chips) Seat 5: GaggleoKings (30147215 in chips) Seat 6: massiliimo (13479306 in chips) Seat 7: Kimbalance (19382950 in chips) Seat 8: tgrigoletti (16318095 in chips) Seat 9: copernic67 (12320320 in chips) selinantis: posts the ante 150000 1BigAceHole: posts the ante 150000 katya0071: posts the ante 150000 GaggleoKings: posts the ante 150000 massiliimo: posts the ante 150000 Kimbalance: posts the ante 150000 tgrigoletti: posts the ante 150000 copernic67: posts the ante 150000 GaggleoKings: posts small blind 600000 massiliimo: posts big blind 1200000 *** HOLE CARDS *** Kimbalance: folds tgrigoletti: folds copernic67: folds selinantis: folds massiliimo said, "i call" 1BigAceHole: raises 1200000 to 2400000 katya0071: folds GaggleoKings: raises 2455555 to 4855555 massiliimo: folds 1BigAceHole: calls 2455555 *** FLOP *** [Jc 7s Ks] GaggleoKings: bets 2777777 1BigAceHole: calls 2777777 *** TURN *** [Jc 7s Ks] [8s] GaggleoKings: checks 1BigAceHole: bets 6850000 GaggleoKings: raises 15513883 to 22363883 and is all-in 1BigAceHole: folds Uncalled bet (15513883) returned to GaggleoKings GaggleoKings collected 31366664 from pot *** SUMMARY *** Total pot 31366664 | Rake 0 Board [Jc 7s Ks 8s] Seat 2: selinantis folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 3: 1BigAceHole folded on the Turn Seat 4: katya0071 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 5: GaggleoKings (small blind) collected (31366664) Seat 6: massiliimo (big blind) folded before Flop Seat 7: Kimbalance folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 8: tgrigoletti folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 9: copernic67 folded before Flop (didn't bet) PokerStars Hand #108991862918: Tournament #823266939, $2000+$100 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXX (8000/16000) - 2013/12/23 22:25:58 WET [2013/12/23 17:25:58 ET] Table '823266939 107' 9-max Seat #8 is the button Seat 1: GaggleoKings (458557 in chips) Seat 3: DEHELLHOUND (343050 in chips) Seat 4: goleafsgo41 (1439692 in chips) Seat 5: jobetzu (848061 in chips) Seat 6: s00tedj0kers (1308703 in chips) Seat 7: Face333X (566510 in chips) Seat 8: Dimon_77_rus (703852 in chips) Seat 9: lasagnaaammm (1116952 in chips) GaggleoKings: posts the ante 2000 DEHELLHOUND: posts the ante 2000 goleafsgo41: posts the ante 2000 jobetzu: posts the ante 2000 s00tedj0kers: posts the ante 2000 Face333X: posts the ante 2000 Dimon_77_rus: posts the ante 2000 lasagnaaammm: posts the ante 2000 lasagnaaammm: posts small blind 8000 GaggleoKings: posts big blind 16000 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to GaggleoKings [Js Jc] DEHELLHOUND: folds goleafsgo41: folds jobetzu: folds s00tedj0kers: raises 16000 to 32000 Face333X: folds Dimon_77_rus: folds lasagnaaammm: calls 24000 GaggleoKings: raises 93559 to 125559 s00tedj0kers: folds lasagnaaammm: raises 989393 to 1114952 and is all-in GaggleoKings: calls 330998 and is all-in Uncalled bet (658395) returned to lasagnaaammm *** FLOP *** [8d 3s 7s] *** TURN *** [8d 3s 7s] [2c] *** RIVER *** [8d 3s 7s 2c] [9c] *** SHOW DOWN *** lasagnaaammm: shows [7h 7c] (three of a kind, Sevens) GaggleoKings: shows [Js Jc] (a pair of Jacks) lasagnaaammm collected 961114 from pot GaggleoKings finished the tournament in 31st place and received $10632.90. *** SUMMARY *** Total pot 961114 | Rake 0 Board [8d 3s 7s 2c 9c] Seat 1: GaggleoKings (big blind) showed [Js Jc] and lost with a pair of Jacks Seat 3: DEHELLHOUND folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 4: goleafsgo41 folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 5: jobetzu folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 6: s00tedj0kers folded before Flop Seat 7: Face333X folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 8: Dimon_77_rus (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 9: lasagnaaammm (small blind) showed [7h 7c] and won (961114) with three of a kind, Sevens I think these two are the hands which have had the biggest impact on my poker life. One good, one bad. The first was huge for my confidence and was with around 20 left in a TCOOP which I went on to win. I was in the same boat as Scotty was at the time; applying for jobs. The second was for 4/30 in a 2k wcoop series event with half a million for the winner. Obviously there is no guarantees I would have got much further but at the time I felt really really robbed of my big shot. Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: MANTIS01 on December 21, 2014, 10:58:36 AM The right one, age 12.
Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: RED-DOG on December 21, 2014, 11:53:23 AM Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: theprawnidentity on December 22, 2014, 05:55:12 AM There's not many hands I remember too well. Guess a big one for me was 12 left in a special edition Sunday Storm with around 130k runners.
Got it in with Ahrt Kh vs 9d 9c for a fairly substantial chip lead and bricked a Qh Th 4d flop. Busted 12th for $6k with $130k ut, still, not bad for $11. Looking at this story retrospectively, it didn't really change my life at all. As you were. Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: stato_1 on December 22, 2014, 06:03:32 AM Two for me:
Sixth Form Common room 2005, playing 5p/5p. Can't remember the whole hand but got to the river and I had J5ss and the board was 789Tx with 3 spades. Bet £5 on the river and got called by 3 people and scooped the ~£30 pot with the whole common room watching. Hooked! Other one I got in half my net worth vs Alan Stearn and someone else I cant remember with 66 vs 88 vs 45 on 2863 board, river pairs the 6 and Alan, having seen the other guys straight rolls his cards over exclaiming "NUTS"... not quite Alan! Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: zerofive on December 23, 2014, 03:24:05 AM After spending most of the year of 2014 knocking it in with set vs something better than my set, and moving down stakes all the way back to £1/1, I jumped in a small cash game at Dusk and proceeded to fold every hand for 2 or 3 hours. Eventually I found something playable in the form of 77 and took it to a flop of 7 6 4, where I cbet and was min-raised by an older gentleman. In my head - I'll be honest - I knew what was going on, but I said to myself "if I lose another hand with a flopped set, I'm quitting poker for the forseeable future and getting a job." We got it in on the turn and the board failed to pair. There was a feeling of complete despair, but also a feeling of relief. I certainly don't love my life anymore, but it's definitely changed.
Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: flushthemout on December 23, 2014, 09:49:30 AM 13 left in the Monty Carlo at DTD I have average stack 4 all ins per and I look down at QQ in the BB I fold, turn queen river queen.
Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: david3103 on December 23, 2014, 10:05:13 AM 13 left in the Monty Carlo at DTD I have average stack 4 all ins per and I look down at QQ in the BB I fold, turn queen river queen. Close Mike... 13 left in the GP at DTD I raise AA from utg utg+1shoves utg +2 folds Button folds SB shoves BB tank folds I call turns out the three folds were 72o JJ and QQ calls are 99 and KK board runs out xxJQQ Aces hold and I go to St Kitts :-) Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: Whollyflush on December 23, 2014, 01:41:42 PM Not life changing but losing KK V AA on the bubble of the main event in 2013 vs a Mexican lad, I haven't played a hand of live poker since.
Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: DMorgan on December 23, 2014, 02:02:00 PM DTD £1k Monte Carlo 2009
Myself and BB are 1 and 2 in chips with 32 left Open 77 in the cutoff, BB 3bets I call, flop 764dd, BB cbets I raise, BB tank jams, pot is for 20% of the chips vs AKdd, turn brick river Jd BB is Neil Blatchley AA < 99 20 off the money in the main in 2012 AA < 99 for chiplead with 30 odd left in the DTD wembley thing Kind of over live tournaments :D Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: flushthemout on December 23, 2014, 02:38:38 PM Correct David, seems like a distant memory, but will never forget, hope to see u soon pal all the best, PS I tried to bluff u on ft but you don't have a fold button 10 6 off suit if I recall my hand
Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: david3103 on December 23, 2014, 02:41:37 PM Correct David, seems like a distant memory, but will never forget, hope to see u soon pal all the best, PS I tried to bluff u on ft but you don't have a fold button 10 6 off suit if I recall my hand I remember it well. I had a Jack, how could I be losing? Title: Re: The hand that changed your life................ Post by: alfiesdad on December 30, 2014, 11:56:30 AM |